The Lightning-Speed Waltz

won't beef with people younger than me because that's embarrassing for me. won't beef with people older than me because that's embarrassing for them. won't beef with people my age because i know we both have better shit to be doing. peace and lovr on planet earth

One time when I was 12 arguing with my 6 year old brother our dad told me it was stupid to argue with someone half your age so I pointed out that he was three times my ages and we argued all the time, which did not conclude the arguing

YEEEAAAAAHHHH BABEEEEEEEEEY

This is fucking awesome LMAOOOO

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walked into a burger place to pick up my order and the girl behind the counter looked at my shirt funny so I look down and the shirt is a picture of a girl excited about eating a hamburger and fries. i'm such a fucking cartoon character right now. this is the shirt

Moooola!

This is cosmic horror. To me.

This is how 4-dimensional beings see us.

i love six o clock because the clock looks so stupid. "|" like get real

Tumblr constantly has gems like this where someone says something seemingly inane but it’s actually a thought we’ve all had at some point in our lives

The text of this tweet says:

I find it fascinating how much the tight framing of the tweet elides the context of these long, long battles. I also find it interesting that a short list of civil rights gains that is otherwise entirely American invokes the WSPU bombings, which a) had no direct impact on American suffrage on account of being a United Kingdom-based protest movement, b) did not directly or immediately result in votes for women--the WSPU voluntarily ceased their campaign of bombings, protests, and arson when the UK entered WWI in 1914, which brought an end to it--and c) pissed off local observers enough to inspire retaliatory violence against suffragists from community members who were otherwise not directly engaged with the women's votes.

Note that women received the vote in the UK in 1918, four years after the bombing campaign ended, and that by no means were the WSPU the only women organizing around suffragism in the UK; indeed, they were much smaller in numbers than the more mainstream advocates for women's votes, and the failure of a 1913 suffrage bill was understood at the time as a partial backlash against the bombing campaigns.

In the US, which is the context the tweet is otherwise talking about, women's suffrage was an activity complicated by the Fifteenth Amendment and the Civil-War-era treatment of racism in suffrage. The story is similar in some particulars--civil, nonviolent forms of protest like hunger strikes were important to both actions--but the American suffrage movement never descended into violence. Women were not barred from running for or holding office in the US as they were in the UK, so starting in the 1860s women made some very high-profile runs for political office, some of which won. US suffrage advocates also saw early successes by integrating with the temperance movement through the late nineteenth century and by taking advantage of the addition of new states to advocate for state-level opportunities for woman's suffrage (i.e. temporary voting rights for women in Wyoming and Utah in the mid-1860s, something that the UK would not replicate for another fifty years but which were quickly lost). In addition to losses, however, the state-level push to enshrine voting availability to women was successful, with fifteen states enshrining full voting access for women between 1910 and 1920, and another fifteen protecting routine voting rights for women in some more limited form (usually either Presidential or municipal voting). You will see that the American context included fierce opposition from, largely, the ex-Confederacy, and that was more or less the context in which American suffrage activists were working.

You know what those American women's activists never fucking did as part of organized resistance in the US? Violent activity, including bombings. Funnily enough, it turns out that while disruptive direct action and protests were crucial to making the case for women's suffrage, violence and terrorism were not necessary to make that case. Civility has two definitions in the context of protest, and civil protest in no way precludes being disruptive or annoying--just not violent or dangerous.

Never mind the fact that both the Million Man March (which did shut down DC) and the Capitol Crawl (which did not only entail wheelchair users, but disabled people using a variety of mobility aids) were fucking civil, nonviolent protests relying on the legal right to occupy a space as part of the First Amendment. Both were just about as "anti-civility" in tone as the fucking Women's March: the Million Man March was actually quite similarly controlled in its messaging in a bid to avoid violence, and the Capitol Crawl's sum total "damage" was reckoned in terms of inconveniencing a few American Senators.

This historical analysis is bullshit, or at the very least severely dishonest, and history proves that, too.

OP turned off reblogs but I really needed to put this out there.

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I think I find this post every April Fools Day and I am so happy that I do

I don’t know how I forget about this every year but I love it